Hello, everyone! I am Erik Erikson. I was born in 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany, where I spent my younger years. I raised by my parents, Karla Abrahamsen & Theodor Homburger. In my youth, I was known as Erik Homberger & throughout my schooling, I was teased for being Jewish. I was also teased in my temple school because I fit more into the "Nordic" profile than the Jewish profile, as I was blonde haired and blue eyed. Finally, I learned that I never really knew my biological father, as I was told that Theodor Homburger was my real father. This made greatly question my identity and who I really was.
Later in my life, I studied the arts and later became an educator in the arts. In my duration of being an educator, I had the pleasure of getting to know Anna Freud, the daughter of widely-known psychologist Sigmund Freud. After participating in a psychoanalysis at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, I became fascinated with the subject. Within my time there, I studied Maria Montessori methods of education, which had a huge impact on my work.
I later moved to the United States in 1933 with my wife, Joan Serson, whom was a fellow educator that I met in the school I taught at. We moved to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, where I held a position at Harvard Medical School as America's first child analyst and had my own practice in the psychoanalysis of children. In my move to the United States, I changed my last name to "Erikson". Later on, I held educator positions in UC- Berkeley, Yale, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and many more.
I am a published author of multiple books, based on my theories and research. One of my book's Gandhi's Truth won a Pulitzer Prize and a national Book Award. I contributed much to the field of Psychology. I developed the now-widely known "stages of psychosocial development", which involves 8 stages of where a human being should pass through, beginning at birth and continued to late adulthood/ death.
These stages include: 1) Trust vs. Mistrust (Birth- 2 years old) 2) Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt (2-4 years old) 3) Initiative vs. Guilt (4-5 years old) 4) Industry vs. Inferiority (5- 12 years old) 5) Identity vs. Role Confusion (13-19 years old) 6) Intimacy vs. Isolation (20-24 and can continue up until 39 years old) 7) Generativity vs. Stagnation (Middle adulthood, 25-64 years old or 40-64 years old) 8) Ego Integrity vs. Despair (Late adulthood, 65 years old - death)
Each stage I developed as an "important event" that occurs in this stage and also has important life experiences that they must meet or thus, they will "fail" to meet this stage and have conflicts within their life because of this failure.
Hello, everyone! I am Erik Erikson. I was born in 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany, where I spent my younger years. I raised by my parents, Karla Abrahamsen & Theodor Homburger. In my youth, I was known as Erik Homberger & throughout my schooling, I was teased for being Jewish. I was also teased in my temple school because I fit more into the "Nordic" profile than the Jewish profile, as I was blonde haired and blue eyed. Finally, I learned that I never really knew my biological father, as I was told that Theodor Homburger was my real father. This made greatly question my identity and who I really was.
Later in my life, I studied the arts and later became an educator in the arts. In my duration of being an educator, I had the pleasure of getting to know Anna Freud, the daughter of widely-known psychologist Sigmund Freud. After participating in a psychoanalysis at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, I became fascinated with the subject. Within my time there, I studied Maria Montessori methods of education, which had a huge impact on my work.
I later moved to the United States in 1933 with my wife, Joan Serson, whom was a fellow educator that I met in the school I taught at. We moved to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, where I held a position at Harvard Medical School as America's first child analyst and had my own practice in the psychoanalysis of children. In my move to the United States, I changed my last name to "Erikson". Later on, I held educator positions in UC- Berkeley, Yale, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and many more.
I am a published author of multiple books, based on my theories and research. One of my book's Gandhi's Truth won a Pulitzer Prize and a national Book Award. I contributed much to the field of Psychology. I developed the now-widely known "stages of psychosocial development", which involves 8 stages of where a human being should pass through, beginning at birth and continued to late adulthood/ death.
These stages include:
1) Trust vs. Mistrust (Birth- 2 years old)
2) Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt (2-4 years old)
3) Initiative vs. Guilt (4-5 years old)
4) Industry vs. Inferiority (5- 12 years old)
5) Identity vs. Role Confusion (13-19 years old)
6) Intimacy vs. Isolation (20-24 and can continue up until 39 years old)
7) Generativity vs. Stagnation (Middle adulthood, 25-64 years old or 40-64 years old)
8) Ego Integrity vs. Despair (Late adulthood, 65 years old - death)
Each stage I developed as an "important event" that occurs in this stage and also has important life experiences that they must meet or thus, they will "fail" to meet this stage and have conflicts within their life because of this failure.
Other Links:
http://www.erikson.edu/about/history/erik-erikson/
http://www.nndb.com/people/151/000097857/